Wild-land Fire Services

AMEC’s full-service wild-land fire program assists with pre- and post-fire needs including mitigation, response, and recovery. Clients benefit from AMEC’s years of experience in community planning and public outreach, risk assessment, mitigation project implementation, training and exercises, burn area emergency rehabilitation, and long-term rehabilitation and recovery.

Wildfire Mitigation

Community planning and public outreach

• Community wildfire protection plans (compliant with Healthy Forests Restoration Act)
• Multi-hazard mitigation plans (compliant with Disaster Mitigation Act)
• Fire protection plans for new developments/subdivisions
• Comprehensive and land use planning
• Code development and implementation
• Business and government continuity plans
• Public input and outreach facilitation
• Fire-wise communities planning workshops

Risk assessment

• Comprehensive wildfire hazard analysis
• Geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing
• Fuels and fire behaviour modeling
• Ecological inventories: threatened and endangered species, noxious weeds, riparian/wetland areas
• Water supply vulnerability assessments

Mitigation project implementation

• Grant/funding identification, application, and management 
• Defensible space
• Fuels management
• Home and property assessments
  

Wildfire response and recovery

Wildfire emergency response

• Training and exercises (compliant with National Incident Management System)
• Mobilization using incident command system: operations, planning, logistics, and finance
• Federal emergency management agency disaster assistance coordination and management
• Emergency operations plans
• Volunteer management

Burn area emergency rehabilitation

• Wildfire damage assessment and burn area emergency rehabilitation plans/reports
• Geographic Information Systems- (GIS) based mapping: burn area, fire progression, hydrophobic soils, erosion sites, affected watersheds/sedimentation/deposition Sites, salvage timber 
• Emergency stabilization and protection: cultural and historic sites, ecological and watershed resources
• Endangered and threatened species habitat
• Slope and erosion control, landslide risk assessment
• Infrastructure and drainage structures
• Hazardous materials
• Development and implementation of rehabilitation and monitoring techniques

Long-term rehabilitation and recovery

• Fire recovery plans
• Public information programs
• Non-native and noxious plant control
• Archaeological and cultural inventories
• Culvert and drainage structure repair and design
• Erosion control best management practices
• National environmental policy act (NEPA)
• California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Compliance